View source for Urdu Wikipedia

{{Infobox website
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Urdu Wikipedia<br /> {{Nastaliq|اردو ویکیپیڈیا}}
| screenshot = Urdu Wikipedia.PNG
|collapsible = yes
| logo = Wikipedia-logo-v2-ur.png
| logo_size = 140px
| caption = ''Screenshot of the main page of Wikipedia Urdu''
| url = [http://ur.wikipedia.org/ ur.wikipedia.org]
| commercial = No
| location = Miami, Florida
| type = Internet encyclopedia project
| language = [[Social:Urdu|Urdu]]
| registration = Optional
| owner = [[Organization:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]
| launch date  = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2004|01|27}}
| author       = Urdu wiki community
}}


'''Urdu Wikipedia''' ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|{{#property:P1448}}}}}}), started in January 2004, is the [[Social:Urdu|Urdu]] language edition of [[Wikipedia]], a free, open-content encyclopedia.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.karachiupdates.com/v1.5/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1938:2009-10-19-10-28-43&catid=2:2009-07-03-13-16-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430014030/http://www.karachiupdates.com/v1.5/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1938%3A2009-10-19-10-28-43&catid=2%3A2009-07-03-13-16-07|dead-url=yes|archive-date=April 30, 2014|title=کراچی میں وکی پیڈیا صارفین کا تاریخی اجلاس|date=October 19, 2009|publisher=Karachi Updates|language=Urdu|accessdate=2009-10-23|location=Karachi|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://newsurdu.net/2009/10/wikipedia-2/|title=Wikipedians meetup in Pakistan|date=October 19, 2009|publisher=News Urdu|language=Urdu|accessdate=2009-10-23|location=Karachi|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023062531/http://newsurdu.net/2009/10/wikipedia-2/|archivedate=October 23, 2009|df=}}</ref> As of {{Currentmonth}} {{Currentyear}}, it has {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|ur|N}} articles, {{NUMBEROF|USERS|ur|N}} registered users and {{NUMBEROF|FILES|ur|N}} files and it is the 49th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.

== History ==
Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. As of December 2007, [[Wikipedia]] had approximately 9.25 million articles in 253 languages.

At first, Urdu Wikipedia faced technical problems with the Urdu script font, but now this matter is mostly settled; some unsolved areas remain. Urdu is written in Perso-Arabic script, a right-to-left [[Social:Writing system|writing system]]. As a result, users sometimes need to configure their operating systems and web browsers accordingly.

Currently Urdu Wikipedia uses "Urdu Naskh Asiatype" font, which was introduced and is freely distributed by BBC at BBC Urdu Service website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/ |title=BBC Urdu - صفحۂ اول |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=1970-01-01 |accessdate=2013-09-28}}</ref>  The font is primarily used for article bodies and headings. Urdu variation of [[Times New Roman]] is used for navigation links. Both of these fonts are variations of Naskh style.

Some {{wipe|Pakistan}}i variations of complex Nasta'liq script are also supported only as a secondary choice in [[HTML|class]] definitions of [[CSS]], i.e. if default font is not found on client system, then Nasta'liq script is used.

The translation of the Wikipedia interface and project information pages into Urdu is still in progress. Some pages about how to edit have been translated.

==Milestones==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date !! Milestone
|-
| 2007 || 5,000
|-
| 2009 || 10,000
|-
| 2013 || 20,000
|-
| 2014 || 40,000
|-
| 24 April 2014 || 50,000
|-
| 12 August 2015 || 75,000 
|-
| 29 December 2015 || 100,000
|-
| December 2017 || 125,000
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{ur icon}} Urdu Wikipedia
* {{ur icon}} [http://ur.m.wikipedia.org/ Urdu Wikipedia mobile version] (homepage not yet configured)
* [https://www.facebook.com/UrduWikipedia/ Facebook page]

[[Category:Online encyclopedias]]

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